Based on a majority of votes by SCE attendees, JB Machinery took home the Innovator of the Year Award for its AutoWash Automatic Plate Washing system.
“It’s truly an honour to win this prestigious and coveted award,” said Warren Bird, President of JB Machinery. “Our focus is on helping converters maximise the productivity, quality and efficiency of their converting processes. Manually washing printing plates can take on average five to 10 minutes. Whether you’re doing it on the machine – after makeready or at the end of an order – or offline, you’re consuming 20 plus minutes of the crew’s time to wash plates on a four colour job. AutoWash allows us to automate this process and wash all plates simultaneously in less than four minutes. So, regardless of how many colours you’re running, all plates can be washed and ready for storage, or to run the order, in less time than it would take to wash a single plate.”
